Vince Carter was shaking his head, looking at the box score like it was written in a foreign language. Two chairs down was Antonio Davis, facing the wall, his head in his hands.

This is what the Raptors' locker room looks like when they lose their ninth game in a row, 90-85 to the Orlando Magic, a fourth-quarter "mental breakdown" that left a sold-out crowd of 19,800 booing.

"We've just put ourselves in a negative situation ? not just that we're losing games, but the way that we're playing," Davis said. "Everything just seems to be so blown out of proportion because we've lost so many games.